52.201 Coroner; abolition of office; county medical examiner; appointment; terms; vacancies; civil service; qualifications; agreement among counties. Sec. 1. (1) The board of commissioners of each county of this state shall by resolution abolish the office of coroner and appoint a county medical examiner to hold office for a period of 4 years. If the […]
52.201a Deputy county medical examiner and medical examiner investigators; appointment; qualifications; approval; duties of investigator. Sec. 1a. (1) The county board of commissioners may appoint as a deputy county medical examiner any person meeting the qualifications as required by this section and approved by the county medical examiner. Deputy county medical examiners shall be physicians […]
52.201b Repealed. 2002, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Mar. 4, 2002. Compiler’s Notes: The repealed section pertained to residency requirements for deputy county medical examiners.
52.201c County medical examiner; powers and duties; establishment of elderly and vulnerable adult death review team. Sec. 1c. (1) The county medical examiner is in charge of the office of the county medical examiner and may promulgate rules relative to the conduct of that office. The county medical examiner may delegate any functions of that […]
52.201d Deputy county medical examiners; appointment in counties under civil service. Sec. 1d. In counties having a civil service system the county medical examiner shall appoint the deputy medical examiners. History: Add. 1969, Act 92, Imd. Eff. July 24, 1969
52.201e County medical examiner and deputies; compensation and expenses. Sec. 1e. The compensation of the county medical examiners and deputy county medical examiners shall be such as is appropriated by the county board of supervisors. The county medical examiner and deputy county medical examiners shall receive, in addition to compensation, their actual and necessary traveling […]
52.201f County medical examiner and deputies; removal. Sec. 1f. The county board of supervisors shall remove from office any county medical examiner or upon request of the county medical examiner any deputy county medical examiner, after hearing, who fails to discharge properly the duties of his office. In counties having a civil service system, the […]
52.202 Investigation by county medical examiner as to cause and manner of death; prisoners; medical records, papers, or documents; exemption from disclosure; definitions. Sec. 2. (1) A county medical examiner or deputy county medical examiner shall investigate the cause and manner of death of an individual under each of the following circumstances: (a) The individual […]
52.203 Notice to county medical examiner by physician or individual with knowledge of certain deaths; knowledge that 2 or more individuals involved were same age, sex, height, weight, hair color, eye color, and race; notice not required; review by elderly and vulnerable adult death review team; disclosure. Sec. 3. (1) Except as otherwise provided in […]
52.204 Violent, unexpected or medically unattended deaths; removal of body, notice; violation of section, penalty. Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful for any funeral director, embalmer or other person to remove the body from the place where death occurred, or to prepare the body for burial or shipment, when such funeral director, embalmer or other […]
52.205 Notice of body; manner of death; removal of body to morgue; investigation; designation and duties of medical examiner investigator; list of investigators and qualifications; autopsy; ascertaining identity of decedent and notifying next of kin; impossible identification or knowledge that 2 individuals share same attributes; records; disposition of body; retention of portion of body. Sec. […]
52.205a Sudden death, cause unknown, of child under age of 2 years; report; request for autopsy; notice of results; costs; rules. Sec. 5a. (1) When a child under the age of 2 years dies within this state under circumstances of sudden death, cause unknown, or found dead, cause unknown, that death shall be immediately reported […]
52.206 Private morgue; compensation. Sec. 6. If the body of a deceased person has been removed to a private morgue for examination upon the order of the medical examiner, the keeper of such morgue shall be allowed compensation for his services as the county medical examiner deems reasonable. Compensation is to be paid out of […]
52.207 Violent, unexpected or medically unattended deaths; investigation by county medical examiner; inquest. Sec. 7. Upon the written order of the prosecuting attorney or the attorney general or upon the filing of a petition signed by 6 electors of a county, the county medical examiner or deputy shall conduct an investigation, as provided in section […]
52.208 Violent, unexpected or medically unattended deaths; personalty found on deceased’s person, possession, inventory, disposition, use as evidence. Sec. 8. In all cases arising under the provisions of this act, in the absence of next of kin of the deceased person, the senior police officer being concerned with the matter, and in the absence of […]
52.209 Body determined suitable for donation; agreement; release of information; conduct of examination within certain time period; section to be known as “Kyle Ray Horning’s law.” Sec. 9. (1) If a county medical examiner or his or her designee receives notification from a person other than a representative of a hospital of a death that […]
52.210 Removal of body to crematory; permit from county medical examiner; violation of section, penalty. Sec. 10. No funeral director, embalmer or any other person shall remove the body of any deceased person to a crematory or remove for the purpose of cremation such dead body from the county in which death occurred without the […]
52.211 County medical examiner; records. Sec. 11. Medical examiners shall keep a record of all views of bodies found dead, together with their view and autopsy reports. History: 1953, Act 181, Eff. Jan. 1, 1954
52.212 County medical examiner and deputies; testimony, expenses. Sec. 12. Any and all medical examiners or their deputies may be required to testify in behalf of the state in any matter arising as the result of any investigation required under this act, and shall testify in behalf of the state and shall receive such actual […]
52.213 Coroner; transfer of powers and duties to county medical examiner, abolition of office; transfer of proceedings and records. Sec. 13. In counties having a medical examiner under the provisions of this act, the powers and duties vested by law in the office of coroner are hereby transferred to and vested in the county medical […]
